HCMC – Painting Exhibition “Pause”

Opening: Tue 01 Nov, 6 – 8 pm
Exhibition: 01 – 11 Nov 2011
Himiko Cafe

From Himiko Cafe:
PAUSE is the exhibition title for 9 new artworks of Nguyen Son. These 9 artworks is the beginning of Nguyen Son’s “Immigration”, an artwork project which was started in Europe since June 2011. 9 finished artworks including photos and paintings with equal sizes are different in term of expression language but connected by Nguyen Son’s feelings as a diary from journey days.

The uniqueness of PAUSE exhibition is that the artist simultaneously shows two different spaces with equal size. 45x70cm digital photos captured images of street artists and daily life activities in a reporting manner at every place where Nguyen Son had passed by, in which colors at certain parts were purposely changed from original photos. Next to the photos are paintings (which have the same size) that describe subtle spaces of the mind, with blur spots that stand out. The absurds in reality (that are shown in photos) and the realistic through fictionalization (in the paintings) are what Nguyen Son aims toward: making blurs the boundary of the mind.

Overall, PAUSE of Nguyen Son presents a view angle from a Vietnamese artist about the distant Europe.

Author’s words

“Prague, Roma, Paris, Amsterdam, Rotterdam, Antwerpen…

I – On street of strangers.

The street artists with their art are the signs to help me go without any communication between thousands of melodic rhythm of life.

Yes, it is true that this world has many boring stories!
Yes, it is true that human hearts are divided with countless conflicts!
Yes, it is true that my burning passion can be defeated by common sense reasoning!
But it is alright! Night could be long like the white night that I had been through, then still day immediately followed after. Yet I still found my path in daily life with performances of street artists.

Were they really acting? No – I think: that was their lives that were presented by themselves. There is no difference between them and those angels who guard the sacred garden that appears right in our mortal world. They showed me that somebody’s life could be either large or small depending on that same person’s intuition. For me, I always want to make blurs the boundary of my life.”